New Albany, IN, USA
In broad day light, it was as big as three aircraft carriers, but as silent as air. Moving very slowly theough the air. at the front th
Report quality: Moderate55/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-07-07
- Where
- New Albany, IN, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 30mins
- Geo
- 38.286, -85.824 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-new-albany-in-1978-5eeaeb
Part of a wave
Colares & Operação Prato
Ilha de Colares and the Baixo Amazonas, Pará, Brazil
The most physically aggressive wave on record. Luminous objects — locals called them 'chupa-chupa' (sucker-sucker) — descended nightly over fishing villages, projecting beams that left burns, puncture marks, anemia and…
In context
- New Albany, IN has 22 sightings on file here.
- 1978 brought 8 reports from Indiana.
- The 1970s skewed 6.5% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.